Recent reviews by ✪✪ Sgt Rakov ✪✪

Very overhyped game. Basically, the only good thing about it is newtonian physics, which is what attracted me at first. Except it's too easy because the ship is very powerful, and distances are small, so you rarely actuall need to consider it. Everything else... meh. The woodpunk cartoonish visual style that feels like game designed for kids, the time-loop gimmick everybody is so afraid of spoiling, the lackluster gameplay of just flying to random planets and running around trying to find any notes or really anything of interest at all, all while being on a time-loop time limit. I'm all for slow immersive games, but here there is nothing to immerse with, it's just a meh-looking sandbox with a bunch of empty planets floating around. Pass.

Amazing game, but the genre is somewhat misleading. People expect ETS2 in space, while this is more like Space Engineers or X3. Lots of resource/subsystem management and trading, lots of three-dimensional navigation. But if you want to just drive straight for hundreds of miles, that's not your game.

Pros:
-Fully newtonian physics! Those are rare even in space games. Yet it is optional, too - with "drive assist" on, your truck behaves more like a plane, using side thrusters to turn automatically, but if you disable it, you can fly in one direction forever without using engines at all. Either way, it's really fun to do basically anything in this game.
-Map isn't super-big but it's full of details and every system feels unique, design around a certain idea. That's different from most space games in which systems are just a couple stations randomly placed around.
-Default difficulty feels just right, not too easy and not too hard (and you can easily customize it, too). You struggle in the beginning, then learn to own it.

Cons:
-Music is great, but there's not enough of it - after a while you've heard every song 100 times and it gets annoying.
-Lots of docking. Dock to buy one battery, dock to take a job, dock to container to pick it up. At this point it becomes part of core gameplay loop.
-Bad balance regarding job payouts. You unlock lots of different job types only to see that basic contracts pay the most. Story missions usually don't pay at all, so if you rush storyline without doing side-jobs, you are screwed.
-Some features are not well explained and you have to read forums/guides to learn about them (btw, check out my guide!).

Amazing game. You can drive your flying car (called HOVA) in a dense futuristic city, then you land it and walk among the spires. Great visuals, decent story. After completing both base game and DLC, I really wish there was more of it, but alas.

It's Tropico with trains, if this doesn't make you buy the game, I don't know what will.

1. Low amount of content. Only a few planet exteriors, a few interior rooms as well, joined together randomly. Stuff starts repeating real quick.
2. Boring gameplay loop. You land, go in, grab stuff until you see the monster, then run away and bring stuff to the ship. There's no real challenge, mostly just luck. Either you quickly die or make it out. Alternatively, you can try killing monster with shovels, which exposes how bad fighting gameplay is (which is fine I guess, since you're not really meant to do that).
3. Lack of global progression. Your quota increases until you fail to fulfil it, after that your save is wiped and you start everything from scratch. The only thing to play for is setting new quota records, if you don't care about records there's nothing to play for, what's the point if you lose everything anyway.

It's a good game, with nice aesthetics and gameplay. However, I have no friends, so it's not that enjoyable - when you play alone, you feel just lost in the crowd.

Yet another overhyped "spam stuff inside area to get it to level 5" DLC. What makes university prestige enough to be rated 5 stars? According to C:S developers, that's 72 grounskeeping buildings placed in a row.

Overrated DLC that doesn't deserve its praise. You play the base game, put down some pre-made park and think "I wish I could make my own park without bothering with asset editor and stuff", unfortunately that's not how it works. This is just one of the similar-playing "create a zone and get it to level 5 by spamming stuff" DLCs, this time you have 4 types of park (city park, amusement, zoo and natural reserve) and they require quite a lot of spam to level up, and no, props or trees don't count - you must place pre-made buildings to increase your park popularity rating. So you buy this DLC to escape spamming same buildings again and again, only to have to spam same buildings again and again. And some of them are much more space efficient than others, so chances are, you are gonna spam just one. Just one example: City Park, Gazebo is 2x2 building that gives you 60 enterntainment value, and you need 1120 for level 5, that's 19 of them to reach it - and that's just the most efficient one, other available buildings yield much less enterntainment per tile. And City Park buildings don't even look like city park. A chessboard? A trampoline area? It looks more like leftover assets from other types than something from a real downtown park area. There's only one plaza with a fountain available. And zero horse rider statues, and we all know that's the first thing you see in any real city park. But apparently trampolines were more important to add.

Decent DLC. Adds two new district styles - leisure (a fancier, shinier commercial) and hotels (which look kinda like residential but works as commercial). The rest of it isn't as good, bike lanes are mostly cosmetic (cause cims will ride on sidewalks anyways), and taxis are completely broken and will not work no matter what you do.

Very underrated DLC. Not only are trams the second best mode of transportation of game (after metro, of course), but winter maps aren't bad either, they add a few unique mechanics (like snow plowing and heating) while also looking decent. I think the hate comes mostly from the fact that people expected true seasons, well while it doesn't meet the expectations it's still a very solid DLC, one of the best I'd say.